Thursday, March 26, 2009

Tips On How To Make Money Online From Paid Emails


Making money online from paid email is one of the numerous and easy ways of accessing online incomes.However,it can also be a waste of time and energy if adequate care is not properly observe when looking for a company or network that host paid email services.To find them seems very easy because one can easily go to any search engine to search for such companies but choosing the best and legitimate one requires good and careful observation,failure to adhere with these observed and careful tips I'm about to pass across to you might lead you to scammers and subsequently chaos.One of the prominent mistakes people make is going for a scam sites while choosing a paid email programme,this will not only waste your valuable time as stated above but deplete your your resource(money).I will highlight some tips in this article that will assist any paid online email participator/would be in choosing a more reputable and legitimate paid email companies.

#Don't Be Deceived-Evaluate Their Offers
Always scrutinize the various offers dangled by these companies.The best and real paid email programme can only generate you around $0.01-$0.25 per mail at most and can never be more than that amount and I have my fact to back this up.The fact is that no paid email company can claim to charge less to advertisers and pay their members exorbitantly,if this happens then it is obviously certain it is a scam.We can do the simple arithmetic together here on our own,lets say these companies charge advertisers $10 or at most $25 (which rare) is for 1000 clicks or impressions then the amount payable to their members should NOT be more than $0.01 or $0.25 per email.So watch out and don't be deceived by outrageous amount always flagged by some sites.

#Embrace Privacy
Avoid using your real name and address,infact never use your personal information whenever you're registering with any paid email host.It is better to use a nickname as your Username in order to be on a safer side.

#Do Some Research
Endeavor to do some research work about the paid email company before you engage yourself,a good paid email company will be very popular and with proven track records among advertisers and members.It would have also started business for many years,do a bit research about the company's history and status to make sure you get the best paid email company available.

#Create Another Email Account
Don't ever use your main email account for paid email transaction,open another email account for receiving paid emails from your paid email host instead.This will also go a long way to assist you in reducing junk mails and spams.

#Make Enquiries From Members Of The Company
You can always determine if a particular paid email company you're about to enrol with is a scam by checking the various reviews and comments from registered members of the company before you register with such paid email company,You will definitely discover more negative comments and criticisms rather than good recommendations and try to learn from these people's mistakes.Make a list of all paid email companies you intend joining and start to gather information about their operations and dealings with their members.Immediately forget about a company you discover or notice to be a scam and step on to the next on your list until you get the one you're satisfied with .A good example is http://www.dolphincents.com/

#Solicit For Referrals
Intimate your family members,friends,students,teachers,colleagues or any other person about your paid email transactions and be certain to show them the sample of your payment made to you so as to pull more referrals to your account.Post or send posters with your referral link on it too and ensure your participation in forums and use the forum signature to promote your link also.

#Read Your Email Daily
Remember to always read your emails everyday because your failure to open and read your paid email for a long period will make such offer expire and subsequently deprive you of money that would have accrued to your account from such mail if opened.Another point is to wait til the giving time on the counter elapse before closing or logging out,if not,you will not be credited without viewing the mail for a specified time on the counter.Your account can also be terminated if you remain inactive and to avoid this you will need to open your paid emails regularly.

#Buy A Premium Membership
Upgrade yourself by procuring a premium membership on your account,by doing this you stand the chance of benefiting more from the paid email companies like free referral,low payout extended to you,high rate for each email sent to you etc.

You can start earning money immediately with these carefully designed steps by listing,researching,evaluating,selecting and finally subscribing to a reputable paid email network and follow the tips above.You can always encourage me to do more by visiting and dropping comment on my blog.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Identify And Strengthen Your Business Strength


Your biggest and greatest asset you can ever boast of as an entrepreneur,online marketer or home business practitioner is your strength but how many business operators can actually identify where their strength really lies? identifying the key strengths of your business might be difficult to you but adopting the best business practices is a sure channel that will assist you in spotting the strengths of your business enterprise.You might have a trailer loads of things that your company does well,yet you need to sieve the grain from the chaff in order to identify the most valuable possession among your possessions.


Identifying those core transactions,products,services,processes and intangible ideas that actually transformed or can transform your business towards growth and success is very crucial to your company's continuous progress.Therefore identify the strength that matter most and some possible area to search for your company's strengths.

Search For Reasons

We all have various reasons for establishing our businesses,it could be simply to make profit,make extra cash,to fall back on something after retirement,be self employed e.t.c but the basic fact is that there is a reason behind your establishment.Now,you may or may not have a framework for your business but somewhere,just somewhere in your mind lies your aim of establishing your company.Search and identify the reason the purpose of your business,identify the type of business you're into,identify the reason why your business still exist why other competitors have either liquidated or ran out of gas.Challenge yourself to search honestly and with conviction the reason why you started at the time you began your business sojourn,Is it to capitalise on the growing trend in demand for the products and services you're presently engaged in or to solve the growing crisis in the market for such services and products,could it be to provide quality services and products that is better than anyone else in your chosen-market or you simply just wanted to provide a great place of work for the people.Putting sentiments aside,why do you establish you business?


Acquiring Motivation

A dark but visible force in all business is the motivation of the entrepreneur or employees.Though this might seem like a wrong channel to look for business key strengths but I want you to know that nothing can ever be done without human contribution.Your employees may break or make you depending on your understandings,they have the opportunity of working somewhere else.Still,they work for you,why do you think they stay glued to your company?,what makes them happy working for you?,What motivates them to coming to the office everyday?,and what brings you to work everyday too?,what are your passion?.For without passion nothing can ever be done rightly.

I once know a small privately owned farm in Abeokuta (Nigeria) that supplies fresh eggs and other livestock products every Friday to some civil servants at their various offices.One of the employees of the farm told me one day When we had a deep conversation and I demanded to know the reason why he's doing what he's presently doing,he said and I quote "bros,I couldn't imagine what else to do because I love animals and because of this I love going to work everyday".Because of this key strength,the poultry is now the "customer's choice" of many private and public agencies and the reason is that the manager realised his key strength in this employee because of his natural love for the company's product and he (manager) built other strengths around him.Could your own key strength be your employees,products,services,clients or even you yourself?.Find out you key strengths and strengthen it more.


Remember that you can always be who you want to be,Yes,you might be good in your business activities but have you forgotten you can still be better and move on to be the best by searching for useful business ideas and inculcating them into your day to day business activities.One thing is certain afterward,you'll certainly experience more business productivity and increase in prospects that will eventually makes you smile to your bank.Post a comment about this article to inspire me in doing better.To your success.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Email Marketing-Is It Real Or "Spam"?

Basically,email marketing is a process of soliciting for business prospects through email.There is no doubt it is a veritable tool for online marketing but it can also create some problems because many customers around the world believes email marketing messages are "SPAMS" and the reason behind this it is that many scammers and businesses depends on the purchased email contact lists from less or non reputable list provider.This has created negative impact on many company's image,brand or service on several occasions.
Rather than sending thousands of email messages to an untargeted lists,small business have better success sending email newsletter to their customers and prospects.Furthermore,there is a regulations that make it compulsory for email marketers to accept the recipients choice of opting out or unsubscribe from their mailing list anytime.Email sometimes tends to be a spam when it is actually not.
Though this might be a short article it is to point out to some of us out there that believes all emails from unknown contact is a spam,NO far be it,it might be as a result of the source of the contact list from the list provider as mentioned above.
Success to you all.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Where Is Your Business Going And How Do You Intend To Get There?

Basically,there are three types of Entrepreneurs-one that make things happen,one that rather prefer to watch things happen and one that is amazed how things happened.As an entrepreneur you should be able to ask and answer yourself where your business is heading to ,that is,what your business will look like in the next two to three years and also ask yourself if you'll actually achieve your dream in the nearest future.

Though we can't actually point out what the future holds for us but if we don't make changes,will there be a difference in future?I guess not.But there is a certain way of changing the face of your business by doing away with old stuff and embrace the new and more profitable strategic plan.

Every entrepreneur should have a strategic plan which is the "winning goal" of any business or organisation ,a well design strategic plan will facilitate successful competition,customer's satisfaction and positive business participation in a chosen market platform when it is carefully planned and executed.Most small entrepreneurs and proprietors lived extremely in large excuses for not having things done in a strategic manner.I've experience some saying "I'm too young and new in the business",some says "I'm too small and not big enough" and some even went as far as saying "I've never had one before,Why should I start now?".

If all or some of these excuses sounds familiar to you presently then here are some interesting facts: research has shown that 50-60 percents of new business witness failure within the first 15 months because of lack of direction and about 90 percents of all business never have a strategic plan.Ask yourself these questions:Could you be more focused?,Could you be more effective?,Could your employees be more efficient than they presently are? and,Most importantly,could your business be more successful than it is now?.
I know a lot of you out there will give an affirmative "YES" to all these questions,but here is how some of the undermentioned strategic plans will change your answers to these set of questions.

Derive Focus From Your Vision
Most entrepreneur attends to daily and urgent needs of their various business but failed to focus on long-term plans and important aspects.We can always get what we focus on,there is no doubt about that but unless your employee and yourself as a manager focus on a common vision the business will advance nowhere.An implemented strategic plan can leverage,direct,protect and gear your employee's momentum towards achieving the common goal of the company.So do you have a vision to focus?

Goals And Objectives
Having a vision alone is not enough to transform your business in this ever changing world,without a proper channel to guide and control your employees your vision is a myriad.Hence,the reason for you to have a mission.Your business mission is the roadmap statement for guiding and leading your company to a higher level of performance and it provides the framework for decisions and actions designed by-The managers,departments and employees into a company's strategic game plan.Remember,a vision is useless without a roadmap to empower your staff.

Strategy
Strategy saves time and energy in a business organisation,once your goals and objectives are visible then you can go ahead to design a way of achieving them.Your strategy gives speedy answers to the questions of how you're going to get there with the available resources at your disposal,your strategy as an entrepreneur fashions out how to achieve a particular purpose or target,how you can favourably compete among your competitors in the market,how you can gain advantage over your rivals,how your business can grow and expand,how you will satisfy your clients and employees and finally,how you'll respond to changes in market and other endeavour.

Implementation And Evaluation
The best strategies and missions on this earth are meaningless without good execution.The secret to a continuous success and wealth in this life is to find a need and fill it.Find/look for the needs of your business and solve it,by doing this you have successfully launch your business's continuous growth and wealth.Have you ever sat down and ask yourself if you're really where you ought to be if you had implemented some ideas,detect what your end result looks like and where your milestones should be.Plan your next move after executing one and evaluate your actions.If you find yourself off target,find out by how much,correcting yourself and going back on track should be your next plan.Strategic planning is a continuous and never ending business on its own.

Note that your business is a waste of time without a strategic plan,so be wise to have and implement one so as to catapult your business from where it is to where you intend it to be.

I hope this will go a long way in furnishing all entrepreneurs with more information about what needed to be done to transform our business to the next level.I think I'm done with this piece and I also hope this article helps if not visit my blog,ask your question(s) or drop a comment here.
More success to you all.














Monday, March 9, 2009

9 Marketing Strategies To Make You A Successful Entrepreneur

The difference between an accomplisher and a failure is basically the skill.A successful person has created a scope to handle events,situation and circumstances but a failure never bother to harness the necessary techniques needed to succeed,so what happens? there is a consistent repetition of same result they got day after day.Endeavour to create a momentum in your life so that you can keep manufacturing success here and there.You can always achieve what you want only when you put the right tools and understandings into practice as an entrepreneur and I have taken my time to dedicate this nine points to your business success.


Develop New Marketing Skills
The first step to positive business transformation as an entrepreneur aspiring to accomplish a continuous and improved sales is to open your mind to receiving new concepts via books,listening to audio tapes,magazines,journals,articles,seminars and workshops on your area of specialisations.This is to equip you with the current norms in your business world.Improving your entrepreneurial techniques should be a perpetual engagement in order to catapult your profits and sales to a higher altitude.


Solicit From An Experienced Accomplisher
Seek for someone with a good track record doing what you're into and that has successfully done so.Ask for some specific experience he/she has gained in creating and getting a positive marketing grades and customer testimonials.Be informed today that the more you seek for knowledge the more you move closer to it,the more you're closer to knowledge the more experienced you become and the more experienced you gather the easier it is for you to manage your business and other resources (i.e the more you seek,move,become,easier to manage).


Establish Good Relationship With Your Clients/Customers
Opportunities gravitates towards those who respect the interest of others.Develop interest in your customers,send them helpful recommendations and advice that you think would interest and assist them in making extra profit.Do not call them only when you have business transaction but sometimes to say hello,send them cards and gifts when occasions demands and this will keep you in their mind,they'll definitely appreciate and refer you to other prospective clients that might need your services.


Believe In Your Services
Exhibit,show and be proud of your services/products with confidence.State the benefits your prospects tend to gain with enthusiasm by doing business with you because if you don't accept or appreciate the quality of your products or services no one would.


Be Unique
Never make the mistake of comparing yourself with other competitors but rather look at what you have,could be and offer.Mind you,we are all uniquely and differently gifted.
Therefore,you will progress far more in doing something you're good in in a different way,concentrate on your unique service to your customer,consistent repackaging and branding will go a long way to help you.


Be Honest In Your Dealings
Owning up to your personal responsibilities is one one of your credit in disguise but lots of entrepreneur failed to realise this.Never lie or make up an ingenuine story for your inefficiency or failure to meet your client's demands.Defend yourself by stating reasonable explanation as to why things are the way it is,apologise and promise them there won't be a future re-occurrence.


Good Leadership Skills
Be a good exemplary for others to emulate.You can not give what you don't have.Another thing that needed to be known at this juncture is that the success or otherwise of your business depends on your good leadership qualities.A good entrepreneur should be able to identify and handle when his/her employee made mistakes,felt dissatisfied or unhappy and prompt action been taken to correct such because the one of the objectives of a business man is to obtain maximum support and co-operations of employee/staff in order so as to maximise his/her profit and the best way to examine this is by the efficiency formulae of your good leadership roles.


Set An Income Target
Every business Aspiring to grow must have a target annual income.Forecasting your annual income revenue can only spur you to achieving your aspired target provided you vigorously work towards it.


Interpersonal Relationship And Staff Welfare Package
Business is primarily a team work,involving a diversity in status,calibre and professional training.In an established business,the entrepreneur will utilise the work put of his/her employee to achieve a set objectives.It is therefore relevant that the relationship among various grades of people working with you must be well harmonised in order to achieve the project goal.It is the responsibility of the entrepreneur to minimise conflicts by soliciting for co-operation in cordial interpersonal relationship.Always recognise the positive rather than the negative trait of your employee,partner and other co-workers.









Saturday, March 7, 2009

Computer virus and its danger

I recently visited a forum where a question was asked about the danger of virus infection and since its one of my area of specialization I took it upon myself that it will definitely be the first topic of my first blog.So I'm going to do my best to detail its (Virus) effect out.

Computer virus are programmes that are purposely design and it migrate from one computer system to another disturbing the smooth operations of the computer system.Though small, but has the capacity of corrupting your system,deleting the data on your computer ,complete erasure of your hard disk content and it can also spread itself to other computers through your e-mail programmes (especially through e-mail attachments).
It is advisable not to open attachment without knowing the source and when the source is detected it is always safer to scan with an antivirus before opening.
Virus can also come into your computer system by disguising as an attachments of video files,audio,greeting cards,funny image or through downloaded programmes/files from the Internet.They can be hidden in a programme you download,unseen software or other files.Therefore it is very necessary to keep your computer current and installing antivirus tools in order to keep your computer free from this software programme that has caused many problem to systems and untold hardship to entrepreneurs.

Furthermore you'll need to keep yourself abreast of the recent threats to computing in the world of today through identification and adoption of few basic rules while you surf on the Internet,receive e-mail attachment,download files e.t.c.Avoid getting your system infected with virus,how it got there and its type is not as important as removing and preventing future occurrence because once your computer system get infected it start developing some malfunctions automagically e.g. Slow in running,hard disk or modem start an overtime working and you'll start seeing programmes starting automatically and unexpected messages coming up sometimes.

Though there are numerous malicious viruses presently but the top threats now are:

Now, I will ask you some questions and if your answers are "Yes","Yes" and "Yes"then your system is infected with virus.Here are the questions below:

  1. Are you getting an unexpected messages?
  2. is your modem or hard disk working overtime?
  3. is your computer running very slowly?
  4. Is any programme starting automatically?

Suggestions on its removal

Though manual removal is not recommended but a full -system scan by using an up-to-date antivirus product in order to detect and remove any threat and spyware based in your your computer system.Microsoft online scanner can do this job fast and easy (you can visit http://safety.live.com/),I have used it before and can attest to it suitability and its also free.Other top recommended antivirus and spyware are Listed below:

  • The shield Deluxe 2009-Antivirus And Antispyware
  • Bit defender Antivirus 2009
  • CA Antivirus Plus 2009
  • McAfee virus scan plus 2009
  • Webroot Antivirus with Antispyware 6.0
  • Norton Antivirus 2009 e.t.c

The list are endless but this are the top rated ones.

Preventive steps against computer virus infections

  1. Never trust an attachment file's icon.You may be fooled/deceived ,as worms mostly disguise using icons that are replica to icons of text,archive files or picture to deceive users.
  2. If you receive an e-mail message that you think is strange from a known friend or relative check with the person before you actually open it.
  3. Always disconnect your network or modem cable whenever you're not using your computer.
  4. Beware of double file extensions like NAME.BMP.EXE or NAME.TXT.VBS.Never open such attachment as they as threats to your computer systems.
  5. Always do a regular backups especially files you can't afford to lose or those that will b difficult to replace e.g. address books,important e-mails,bookmarks,documents e.t.c.It is advisable you regularly do backup for your entire system.
  6. Do not open e-mail attachment bearing file extensions SHS,PIF or VBS,normal attachment seldom use them except viruses and worms.
  7. Beware of online reception of attachment from strangers in online chat systems like ICQ,AOL instant messenger or IRC.
  8. Avoid the usage of floppies to exchange information between computers.In fact its an obsolete means of information storage.
  9. Install an antivirus and antispyware and also make sure you update continuously when such update is out.

I hope this has been helpful,but in case you have additional questions you can please use the add a comment button.This will go a long way in spurring me to do more better,

Success to you all.